You can achieve natural-looking, flawless skin through the power of makeup, as natural makeup is a lot more in depth than you might think. It’s easy to put some moisturiser, mascara and some concealer and call it ‘minimal makeup’.

But achieving a flawless complexion through natural makeup is more complicated.

Skincare does play a huge role in this. And having a smooth skin surface is important as you can cover colour, but you can’t cover texture.

Look after your skin through skincare, protect your skin barrier and know how to target skin concerns to have a good starting base for your makeup.

Colour correction is vital in achieving a natural, radiant complexion. But applying too much product will clearly show on your skin – especially in direct light.

Colour correction can be to whatever scale you want to take it. It could simply be covering red with green and under-eye circles with orange, or you could be looking at the different colours within your under-eye circles and concealing them.

The more in-depth your correction, the less product you’ll have to apply to conceal the colour of the area.

To tackle this, mix a tiny amount of the colour correction colour you’re wanting to apply with your normal skin-toned concealer. Then apply it to the targeted area and blend until your concern is masked and your product has been fully blended.

This technique is called ’spot paint’. You’re applying product to only the areas that are needed, leaving you with a flawless skin tone.

If you are wanting to apply a layer of product over all your skin but want it to appear very natural or minimal, opt for a BB or CC cream.

CC creams are colour correctors with lighter coverage than BB cream.

BB cream is more hydrating and can provide a beautiful radiance to the skin, which is ideal for dry skin types.

These creams are part-moisturiser, part-foundation, so will have a less heavy consistency, and also help hydrate the skin.

Make sure your product is the correct colour for you, or this will be an instant giveaway that you are wearing the product on the skin.

Blend your product somewhat down your neck so it fades into your natural skin colour, rather than just obviously stopping in a line. By doing this you are also concealing any skin tone concerns on the neck which you may not have thought to colour correct.

If you are applying a layer of product, you’ll want to add some depth back into the skin. I’d advise steering away from powdered products unless you’re setting your spot paint.

You want to highlight the skin’s warmth and therefore applying cream blush and cream highlights will give the skin a natural glow and colour to it while also blending in with the skin’s current texture.

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